linux-kernel - Re: Higher than expected disk write(2) latency

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Date:	Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:11:59 +0200
From:	Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@...a.inka.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Higher than expected disk write(2) latency

In article <48695C20.6050704@...tmq.com> you wrote:
> Yes, that's one thing we want to do. However, we cannot assume that 
> every user will have SSD, thus we should try to get the best latencies 
> possible even on standard HD.

In that case controller (SAN) based write back cache as well as Striping
helps a bit.

Gruss
Bernd
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